The Unforget Yourself Show
Welcome to The Unforget Yourself Show where we use the power of woo and the proof of science to help you identify your blind spots, and get over your own bullshit so that you can do the fucking thing you ACTUALLY want to do! We’re Mark and Katie, the founders of Unforget Yourself and the creators of the Unforget Yourself System and on this podcast, we’re here to share REAL conversations about what goes on inside the heart and minds of those brave and crazy enough to start their own business. From the accidental entrepreneur to the laser-focused CEO...
The Hidden Pressure Behind Business Financing Decisions with Robert Misheloff
Robert Misheloff, founder of Smarter Finance USA, a business financing advisory company that helps small business owners, contractors, fleet operators, and commercial sellers make smarter and safer financing decisions.
Through equipment and commercial vehicle financing education and advisory support, Robert helps clients compare offers, understand the true cost behind financing deals, and avoid costly mistakes like hidden fees, misleading terms, and deposit scams.
Now, Robert’s journey from working closely with equipment finance brands for more than a decade to launching a mission-driven business demonstrates the power of turning industry frustration into meaningful change.
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The Quiet Millionaire: Building Wealth, Health, and Family Out of the Spotlight with Ryan Duncan
Ryan Duncan, entrepreneur, investor, who helps travellers, couples, and health-conscious individuals create richer lives through hospitality, regenerative living, and wellness-focused businesses.
Through luxury event venues, short-term rentals, regenerative farming, and health education, Ryan has built a portfolio centred around freedom, authenticity, and creating meaningful experiences for others.
Now, Ryan’s journey from overcoming health challenges and transforming his lifestyle through food-as-medicine to building businesses across Florida, Costa Rica, and beyond demonstrates the power of taking ownership of your health, your choices, and your future.
And while learning to step out from behind the sc...
From Rock Bottom to Rebuilding Your Life with Brandon Hultman
Brandon Hultman, author of The Hultman Blueprint: Transformation, Tenacity, and Triumph, who helps people navigating addiction recovery, personal setbacks, and major life transitions rebuild their lives through discipline, accountability, and long term personal growth.
Through speaking engagements, mentorship, social media, and honest conversations around recovery and resilience, Brandon shares practical perspective on creating sustainable change through structure, consistency, fitness, and mindset.
Now, Brandon’s journey from addiction and rock bottom to nearly 13 years sober demonstrates how discipline and personal responsibility can completely transform someone’s life and sense of purpose.
And while continuing to n...
Reinvention, Relevance and Long-Term Success: The Business Behind Customer Experience with Shep Hyken
Shep Hyken, founder of Shepard Presentations, a customer service and experience consultancy that helps businesses create exceptional customer experiences, build loyalty, and drive long term success.
Through keynote speaking, advisory work, books, and training, Shep helps organisations create customer focused cultures that keep customers coming back, drawing from more than four decades of experience working with companies across industries worldwide.
Now, Shep’s journey from starting his business at just 22 years old to becoming a globally recognised thought leader and Hall of Fame speaker demonstrates the power of consistency, reinvention, and staying relevant over the lo...
A Plan Is Not a Strategy: Turning Life’s Hardest Moments Into Purpose with Kris Miller
Kris Miller, founder and CEO of Healthy Money Happy Life, a financial literacy and wellness company that helps families, entrepreneurs, and organisations create safer financial futures with greater peace of mind.
Through financial wellness programs, legacy planning, and safe money strategies, Kris guides people to protect their assets, create income they’ll never outlive, and build lives rooted in purpose, freedom, and security.
Now, Kris’s journey through personal health challenges, healing, and transformation demonstrates how life’s hardest moments can create deeper clarity, compassion, and a more meaningful definition of wealth.
And while...
How your reputation drives revenue with Alyssa Gelbard
Alyssa Gelbard, founder and CEO of Point Road Group, a personal branding and executive communications consultancy that helps companies strengthen the reputation and visibility of their leaders and teams to drive revenue, retention, and enterprise value.
Through executive coaching, LinkedIn strategy, messaging, and communications training, Alyssa helps professional services and tech firms position their people more effectively during periods of growth, transformation, scaling, and change.
Now, Alyssa’s work demonstrates how the way leaders show up every day directly impacts trust, influence, sales, referrals, and long term business success.
And while balancing speaking en...
What Went Right, What Went Wrong, and What I Learned in Business with Joe Mkhitaryan
Joe Mkhitaryan, an entrepreneur with businesses across healthcare, medical transportation, technology, and media, helping patients and healthcare organisations access safer, more reliable care.
Through his companies, Joe has built services spanning non-emergency medical transportation, home health, and healthcare technology, while creating hundreds of jobs and generating millions in revenue.
Now, Joe's journey from starting work at 13 to becoming a millionaire by 24 demonstrates what can happen when ambition is matched with resilience, even when the road includes lost clients, difficult partnerships, regulation, and constant pressure.
And while working to expand his healthcare businesses nationally...
Why Doing What Works for Everyone Else Is Not Working for You with Shauna Lynn Simon
Shauna Lynn Simon, founder of SLS Coaching, who helps women entrepreneurs build more sustainable, profitable businesses that depend less on them for everything.
Through private coaching, group programs, speaking, and her podcast, Shauna helps what she calls “Accidental CEOs” make stronger business decisions, simplify what is no longer working, and lead in a way that feels more intentional and aligned.
Now, Shauna’s journey from building a business through instinct and hard work to consciously refining it into something cleaner and more sustainable demonstrates the power of trusting what actually works for you, instead of follow...
How to build your own identity in a family business with Abhinav Jindal
Abhinav Jindal, founder of Cydir, a coaching business that helps second generation family business entrepreneurs overcome identity crises, imposter syndrome, and limiting family dynamics so they can create success that feels authentic to them.
Through life coaching and NLP based methods, Abhinav guides clients to break free from beliefs holding them back, rebuild self-confidence, and create a healthier relationship with success, money, and self-worth.
Now, Abhinav’s journey of leaving behind wealth and comfort in India to start from scratch as an immigrant in Canada demonstrates the courage it takes to redefine identity on your ow...
Why the medical system is failing chronic back pain patients (& how you can start winning today!) with Nicholaus Salinas
Dr. Nick Salinas, co- founder of Functional Movement Therapy, a holistic physical therapy business that helps people overcome chronic back pain naturally, without shots, surgery, or medications.
Through his FMT 360 Method, Dr. Nick guides people to heal through a combination of movement, sleep, nutrition, mindset, and sustainable lifestyle changes, helping patients finally connect the dots after years of fragmented care and failed treatments.
Now, Dr. Nick’s journey from burnout in traditional healthcare to building a mission-driven business demonstrates how simplifying healing and focusing on the whole person can create life-changing results for both patients an...
Demanding Euphoria: Why I Left a Career That Was Working with Ammarah Ahmed
Ammarah Ahmed, founder of Precision Consulting, a CRO and UX/UI consultancy helping growth-stage businesses earn more from the traffic they already have, without increasing ad spend or hiring a full-time team.
Through conversion rate optimisation, UX and UI design, and product experience strategy, Ammarah helps founders and growth teams understand why people are not buying, remove the friction, and build experiences that convert better and feel better to use.
Now, Ammarah’s decision to leave high-paying, high-visibility roles to build something of her own demonstrates the courage it takes to choose alignment over comfort.
...The hidden operational breakdowns that quietly limit business growth — and how to fix them before burnout happens with Desi Bolin
Desi Bolin, founder of Virtually Sourced™ , Catalyst Conversations and Catalyst Collective, who helps entrepreneurs, coaches, speakers, and growing businesses build the systems, strategy, and operational infrastructure needed to scale sustainably.
Through operations consulting, automation, visibility strategy, event production, and backend business support, Desi helps visionary founders move from overwhelm and inconsistency into clarity, structure, and sustainable growth.
Now, Desi’s journey through burnout, reinvention, and rebuilding has shaped her belief that success should support your life, not consume it.
And while helping leaders strengthen the foundations behind their businesses, she’s also having deeper...
The Blind Spot That’s Becoming a Seven-Figure Business with Tirza Jova
Tirza Jova, founder of Milk by Mom, a modern infant nutrition company that helps breastfeeding moms preserve their breast milk with more flexibility, confidence, and peace of mind.
Through a specialized freeze-drying process, Tirza and her team help families turn frozen breast milk into a shelf stable powder, making it easier for moms to continue feeding their babies while balancing work, travel, family life, and everything in between.
Now, Tirza’s journey from identifying an overlooked problem in maternal care to building a rapidly growing multi six figure business demonstrates what can happen when you cr...
From Headhunter to Career Coach: How I Sold Everything, Moved to Costa Rica, and Started Helping Women Stop Waiting to Be Chosen with Alison Hemmings
Alison Hemmings, founder of Hemmings Consulting, who helps ambitious professional women land executive roles, launch consulting businesses, and step into fractional leadership with confidence and strategy.
Through executive career coaching and personalised 1:1 guidance, Alison helps high-achieving women stop waiting to be chosen and start positioning themselves for the opportunities and income they truly deserve, drawing from over a decade of experience in executive search and talent placement.
Now, Alison’s journey from running a successful executive search firm in Toronto to selling everything and rebuilding her life and business in Costa Rica demonstrates what it lo...
Propaganda Detox with Zsuzsi Evans
Zsuzsi Evans, founder of HD by Z Coaching, who helps women reconnect with who they truly are through Human Design, self trust, and deep personal transformation.
Through coaching, workshops, readings, and speaking, Zsuzsi guides women to unlearn the pressure of performative success and build lives and businesses that actually feel aligned, grounded, and sustainable.
Now, Zsuzsi's journey from owning a successful Manhattan salon, to walking away from burnout, addiction, and emotional collapse, demonstrates the power of rebuilding your life from the inside out.
And while helping women navigate entrepreneurship, relationships, identity, and nervous...
It's never too late to design a life you love with Trudy Guyton
Trudy Guyton, founder of Uncaged Woman, who helps women turn heartbreak and life experience into purpose while creating a life by design, not by default.
Through group coaching, self-study programs, and 1:1 coaching, Trudy combines her certification in Spiritual Psychology with her own personal experiences to help women find freedom from within and build a life they truly love.
Now, Trudy's journey of transforming heartbreak and loss into a mission to support other women demonstrates how pain can become the foundation for something deeply meaningful.
And while launching a podcast, preparing to publish a...
How to see medications as band aid solutions for chronic diseases, and step into long term holistic work for lasting results with Arwa Hussain
Arwa Hussain, a clinical pharmacist and integrative healthcare practitioner, who helps women struggling with burnout, chronic fatigue, brain fog, and stubborn weight regain their energy and rebuild their health through functional and holistic medicine.
Through personalised coaching and holistic interventions, Arwa guides women to uncover food triggers, improve gut health, and move beyond temporary symptom management toward long term healing and sustainable wellness.
Now, Arwa’s own journey through chronic fatigue, burnout, brain fog, stress, and stubborn weight demonstrates the powerful transformation that can happen when you stop relying on quick fixes and begin addressing th...
Brain Cancer and Other Good Luck with Barry Maher
Barry Maher, speaker, consultant, and author, who helps business leaders and organisations improve performance, leadership, and communication through keynote speaking, consulting, and storytelling.
Through his speaking engagements, consulting work, syndicated humour column, and award-winning writing, Barry combines decades of business insight with humour, resilience, and a deeply human perspective on overcoming adversity.
Now, Barry’s journey from discovering he had a cancerous brain tumour the size of a softball to waking up with a vivid supernatural story and Lady Gaga playing nonstop in his head demonstrates an extraordinary ability to turn life’s darkest moments into...
Your Business Can’t Outgrow Your Identity with Carolina Caro
Carolina Caro, founder of Conscious Leadership Partners, a boutique leadership development firm that helps leaders, teams, and organisations grow through coaching, training, and consulting services.
Through leadership workshops, retreats, academies, and team coaching, Carolina helps businesses explore the identities shaping their culture, leadership, and growth, while guiding owners to recognize how their own identity can either amplify or limit what’s possible.
Now, Carolina’s journey of scaling both the front end and back end of her business while navigating the growing pains of expansion demonstrates how deeply personal growth and business growth are connected.
The Power of Sound and Music as Medicine with Jeralyn Glass
Jeralyn Glass, founder of Crystal Cadence, creator of The Source App, and an internationally acclaimed singer and sound healing pioneer who helps people navigate grief, trauma, and emotional challenges through music as medicine.
Through crystal singing bowls, sound healing sessions, education, and her book Sacred Vibrations, Jeralyn supports veterans, hospice patients, children, and people experiencing loss to reconnect with healing, integration, and wholeness.
Now, Jeralyn’s journey following the sudden loss of her only son, Dylan, demonstrates how profound grief can become a path toward purpose, service, and transformation.
And while working to br...
The Wrong Leap That Became the Right Life with Dawn Ledet
Dawn Ledet, founder of The Self Trust Solution, a coaching and mentorship business that helps coaches and experts build businesses fueled by self trust and claimed authority.
Through her signature program Claimed, mentorship offerings, speaking engagements, and thought leadership, Dawn guides entrepreneurs to trust themselves more deeply, own their authority, and build businesses that reflect who they truly are.
Now, Dawn’s journey from a 20 year luxury hospitality career into building her own coaching business demonstrates what it really looks like to keep betting on yourself, even through uncertainty, near wins, and hard seasons of gr...
From Founder to Futurist: Success, Setbacks, and Seeing What’s Next with Daniel Burrus
Daniel Burrus, founder of Burrus Research, a futurist and business strategist who helps leaders and organisations see what’s coming next and use that certainty to create competitive advantage.
Through keynote presentations, executive briefings, consulting, leadership workshops, innovation roundtables, Hard Trend reports, and the Anticipatory Organization® framework, Daniel helps leaders stop reacting to change and start anticipating it.
Now, Daniel’s journey of founding six companies and advising global organisations demonstrates how seeing patterns, taking risks, and thinking ahead can turn disruption into opportunity.
And while the pace of AI, automation, and digital trans...
Why the CEO of a Wellness Company Had to Learn to Take Care of Himself First with Clark Lagemann
Clark Lagemann, CEO of Avidon Health, a digital health coaching platform that helps employers, health plans, and benefits teams improve employee wellbeing and create meaningful behaviour change.
Through personalised health coaching, wellness challenges, and science-backed behaviour change programmes, Clark and his team help organisations deliver scalable support that goes beyond generic wellness apps.
Now, Clark’s journey of building a company around wellbeing, while also learning what it truly means to take care of himself, demonstrates the very real tension many high-performing founders face.
And while leading a growing company, raising a young fa...
Married to the Job: Why Work Is a Relationship, Not Just a Paycheque with April Morgan
April Morgan, founder of Elevate People Ops LLC, a people operations and leadership consulting company helping small businesses, startups, growing organisations, and leaders build healthier workplaces, stronger teams, and sustainable growth.
Through HR consulting, leadership training, workplace culture support, compliance guidance, and conversations around her book Married to the Job, April helps organisations create more human, people-first workplaces where teams can communicate, grow, and thrive.
Now, April’s journey from supporting everyone else behind the scenes to stepping forward as a business owner, author, and public voice demonstrates the power of turning lived experience into me...
From Jobless PhD to Food Science Consultant: How I Broke Out of My Limiting Beliefs with Bryan Le
Bryan Le, founder of Mendocino Food Consulting, a scientific consulting firm that helps food and beverage startups solve complex formulation, food safety, and production challenges.
Through expert consultation, research and development, and technical problem-solving, Bryan supports founders and growing brands in bringing innovative food products to life, drawing from his experience as a PhD-level food scientist working with companies like Blue Diamond Growers and The Good Food Institute.
Now, Bryan’s journey from being an unemployed PhD graduate to building a successful consulting business demonstrates the power of persistence, reinvention, and staying grounded through life’s un...
The Life You Were Meant to Live You Had It All Along with Anna Quigley
Anna Quigley, founder of Journey to Purpose, a transformational speaker, workshop facilitator, and intuitive guide who helps people uncover the gifts they have been overlooking and build lives of purpose, fulfilment, and impact.
Through her workshops, speaking, and small mastermind groups, Anna combines psychology, intuitive living, and mind-body science to help people let go of what no longer fits and step into what is truly meant for them.
Now, Anna’s own journey through a life that looked perfect but ultimately imploded, walking away from a toxic job, and becoming a cancer survivor demonstrates the po...
Building a business while building a family with Laura Todd
Laura Todd, owner of a mental health private practice that supports mothers, fathers, and families through fertility, postpartum, and the early years of parenting.
Through individual therapy, dyadic birth-to-five therapy, and in-home developmental guidance, Laura helps parents navigate postpartum depression and anxiety, attachment, trauma, parent-child relationships, and infant development.
Now, Laura’s journey of building a growing business while also building her family demonstrates the real-life balance of ambition, motherhood, and protecting your own wellbeing.
And while her time and energy are finite, she continues to grow with focus and purpose, helping parents fe...
Overcoming the fear and obstacles by force with Madison Phillips
Madison Phillips, speaker, coach, and founder of Against Given Odds, who helps people overcome fear, obstacles, and life’s challenges with confidence, resilience, and purpose.
Through coaching, consultation, and speaking, Madison meets people where they are, offering guidance rooted in faith, family, business, and real personal growth.
Now, Madison’s journey demonstrates that success is not just built through income, but through the reps, lessons, failures, and discipline it takes to keep moving forward.
And while building his business as a one-man show, he continues to use his drive, prayer, and life experience to h...
Backing Yourself When the Path Isn’t Easy with Kelly Kingston
Kelly Kingston, founder and CEO of Happy and Well® and founder of the Women of Wisdom Collective, a transformational wellness and business ecosystem helping women align their life, health, purpose, and business.
Through Happy and Well®, The Cycle™, Women of Wisdom Collective, retreats, education, events, wellness products, and mentoring, Kelly helps women reset unhealthy patterns, reconnect to themselves, and build more aligned lives, businesses, and legacies.
Now, Kelly’s journey of backing herself through financial pressure, partnership lessons, setbacks, and constant recalibration demonstrates the resilience it takes to keep building from vision, purpose, and lived experi...
What It Really Takes to Buy, Fix, and Scale Manufacturing Businesses with Eric Wiklendt
Eric Wiklendt, of Speyside Equity, a private equity firm that acquires and grows mid-market manufacturing and industrial businesses.
Through capital investment and hands-on operational support, Eric works with founders, family-owned companies, and management teams to improve performance, strengthen leadership, and create long-term growth.
Now, Eric’s work across multiple deals and portfolio companies demonstrates what it really takes to balance strategy, pressure, and hands-on problem-solving in complex businesses.
And while the world of private equity can be fast-moving and unpredictable, Eric is helping manufacturing companies become stronger, more scalable, and better positioned for th...
Whispering Through the Chaos: Leadership, Burnout, and Building a Business Without Losing Yourself with Cass Cooper
Cass Cooper, founder of “Know Better, Do Better Consulting” - a leadership and business strategy consultancy, who helps professionals and organisations navigate growth, burnout, communication challenges, and workplace culture in healthier, more sustainable ways.
Through consulting, speaking, content strategy, and leadership development, Cass supports leaders, founders, and professionals to build careers and businesses that are successful without losing themselves in the process.
Now, Cass’s journey as a solo parent, business owner, speaker, and human-centred leadership strategist demonstrates what it looks like to pursue ambition, visibility, and impact while redefining success beyond constant hustle.
And...
Team Culture: Showing up at home sets the stage for showing up at work with Carey Chronis
Dr. Carey Chronis, pediatrician, business owner, speaker, and author of Connection Rethink: Team Culture from Home to Boardroom, who helps leaders rethink team culture by looking at where it first begins - at home.
Through his 25 years in private pediatric practice, leadership experience, and keynote presentations, Carey explores the six pillars of team culture: safety, cooperation, trust, purpose, change, and resilience.
Now, Carey’s journey from running a busy medical practice to recognising the powerful connection between family life and workplace culture demonstrates how the way we show up at home can shape the way we...
The cost of holding everything together while quietly falling apart internally with Deanne Kelleher
Deanne Kelleher, founder and principal of KAOS Group, a business operations and systems consultancy that helps successful business owners and leaders build documented, transferable systems so their business can run without everything depending on them.
Through her Organize, Optimize, Profit methodology, Deanne helps companies capture what is really happening inside the business, standardise what works, and create the operational clarity needed to scale, franchise, or position for sale.
Now, Deanne’s journey of rebuilding KAOS Group after injury, loss, divorce, and a serious health crisis demonstrates what it really means to create infrastructure that supports bo...
You're Successful... So Why Does Your Money Still Feel Like a Mess? with Allie Beckmann
Allie Beckmann, founder of Liberated Financial, a woman-owned, independent financial planning and investment management firm helping high-earning tech and creative professionals, and solo or small business owners, bring clarity and confidence to their money.
Through comprehensive financial planning, tax-efficient investment management, and a values-based approach, Allie helps her clients make smart financial decisions that are aligned with who they are, not just what the numbers say.
Now, Allie’s journey from professional performing artist to financial planner demonstrates what it looks like to rebuild success on your own terms, creating stability without losing creativity, identity, or...
When Trust Breaks at the Top The Hidden Cost of Misalignment with Debbie Simmons
Debbie Simmons, founder of the Architecture of Trust framework and known as The Legacy Architect, who helps founders, executives, leadership teams, and organisations strengthen trust, alignment, culture, and long-term legacy.
Through advisory consulting, executive coaching, leadership diagnostics, keynote speaking, and organisational trust architecture work, Debbie helps leaders identify the hidden structural fractures that can quietly erode decision-making, execution, governance, and growth.
Now, Debbie’s work is rooted in the belief that trust is not just a personality trait or communication issue, but a leadership system that must be intentionally built and sustained, especially under pressure.
...From the Outback to the Boardroom: Why Simplicity Wins Under Pressure with Anthony Reeves
Anthony Reeves, author, speaker, and former global leader at Amazon, Airbnb, and WPP, who helps leaders and organisations cut through complexity, protect what makes them different, and move forward with clarity.
Through his speaking, consulting, and book Eat The Donkey, Anthony brings hard-won lessons from the Outback and the boardroom to help businesses simplify pressure, alignment, decision-making, and the growing threat of sameness in the age of AI.
Now, Anthony’s journey from one of the loneliest and most hostile places on the planet to some of the world’s most demanding boardrooms demonstrates the powe...
AI Is Simply Another Tool: How Small Businesses Can Leverage Experience with Andy LaPointe
Andy LaPointe, co-founder of Traverse Bay Farms, an award-winning gourmet food business that helps customers enjoy all-natural products made with high quality ingredients and locally-grown produce whenever possible.
Through their gourmet food brand and growing AI consulting business, Andy and his wife help customers and small business owners through real-world business experience, innovative strategies, and a commitment to genuine value.
Now, Andy’s journey from working in the food industry as a teenager to building a nationally recognised brand distributed across 42 states and five countries demonstrates the power of taking smart risks and staying adaptable in...
Surfing waves of creativity and grit with Andrew Newman
Andrew Newman, a healer and a teacher, and the founder of Conscious Stories, who helps families support children’s emotional development through story, and helps adults reconnect with creativity, healing, and self expression.
Through his collection of 24 children’s books, along with his coaching, workshops, speaking, and retreats, Andrew brings together emotional wisdom, creativity, and personal transformation in a way that serves both children and grown-ups.
Now, Andrew’s impact through more than 300,000 books going out into the world, demonstrates the power of stories that carry goodness, connection, and emotional support into family homes.
And...
From Corporate to Color: How I Built a Movement Around Iconic Colors with Megan Bentley
Megan Bentley, founder of The Color Countess, a personal colour analysis business that helps women, executives, athletes, and public figures elevate how they show up through strategic, harmonious colour choices.
Through advanced virtual and in person colour analysis, Megan helps clients identify the palette that brings clarity, confidence, and polish to their personal style, using a 16 season system rooted in colour theory and visual harmony.
Now, Megan’s journey from a 25 year corporate career into building a highly profitable national brand shows what can happen when someone chooses alignment over conventional success.
And wh...
You can't afford to be like everybody else with Clestine Herbert
Clestine Herbert, international speaker, author, and purpose coach, who helps women of faith discover their genius, uplevel their mindset, and monetise their gifts.
Through her coaching, speaking, signature programme, and books, Clestine empowers women to step into their next level with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Now, Clestine’s journey of more than 20 years in business demonstrates the power of staying focused, embracing transition, and refusing to blend in when you were created to stand out.
And while releasing her third book and expanding into more coaching clients and speaking engagements, she continues to he...